Executive Order: Designation of Additional Officers for the Department of Homeland Security Order of Succession

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America and pursuant to the Federal
Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby
ordered that:

Section 1. During any period when the Secretary of Homeland
Security (Secretary), the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and
the officers designated to perform the functions and duties of the
office of Secretary by section 88 of Executive Order 13286 of February
28, 2003 ("Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in
Connection With the Transfer of Certain Functions to the Secretary of
Homeland Security"), have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to
perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary, the
following officers of the Department of Homeland Security, in the order
listed, shall perform the functions and duties of the office of
Secretary, if they are eligible to act as Secretary under the
provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, until such time
as at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to perform the
functions and duties of the office of Secretary:

Director, Region V, Federal Emergency Management Agency;

Director, Region VI, Federal Emergency Management Agency;

Director, Region VII, Federal Emergency Management Agency;

Director, Region VIII, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and

Director, Region X, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Sec. 2. Exceptions.

(a) No individual who is serving in an office listed in section 1
in an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as Secretary
pursuant to this order.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the President
retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this
order in designating an acting Secretary.